I worry about some of these Stewmac videos. I'd never do this to one of my guitars

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Need to take a plastic toothpick and run them next to each fret on both sides to get that dirt n grease stripe next to each fret

It's not common at all, more like rare

When do you use a regular levelling beam vs an under-string leveler?

I would have taken the fret out and radiused it to fit the fretboard

The j cut at 18:23 was smooth

Having owned many amazing high end, boutique guitars. Nothing compares, sound wise, to my 1891 Martin parlor model 2-17, with light steel strings and drop tuned one whole step. It’s the same model Mark Twain owned.😊

I love you guys. This was great. Please don’t ever stop making awesome videos.

:)

your new animation person was a good hire

TO HELL WITH ALL THE HARSH CHEMS. LEMON OIL. DUH.

Wonder if there is someone out there who would not care and play it in this exact state despite it being rusty

Miles of residue left. Looks like____. It's a worse fret board.

The amount a grey sludge left on each fret. . . A lot of . . ___t.

That's a lot of work Steel wool and some fretboard conditioner.......... 5 minutes later...you're done

0000 Steel Wool with Orange Oil. All my guitars get this treatment.

Damn you leave your guitars out in the rain???😮😮😮

Steve, love your explanations. Great job!

Great video. With LMI no longer in business, do you have an alternate resource for these Rosewood-esque handles? Having a helluva time finding anything similar online. Cheers!

Thank you! 👍

Wash your hands and wipe your guitar down once in a while. Nothing worse than watching somebody play and their guitar is broadcasting greasy streaks from food or who knows what

that was really useful, thank you gentlemen, much appreciated

It was still moving after it was glued. Is that the trademark of stewmac?

Yes, it needs to be glued normally but the notch on the hammer isn't needed.

Or once the solder has cooled just level and recrown 😅

Call me a perfectionist, but frets aren't properly polished until you've used a dremel, buffing wheel, and flitz compound. Now that combo will get you some mirroresque frets!

a quartz inlay could be nice, i used to like walking in streams near gold fields that were all quartz

It shouold be mentioned that Deoxit D5 dissolves damping grease. That makes some pots very loose, e.g. the pots on Fender Rumble bass amps.

none of us are perfect, but this is why we have Jesus! lol

Hey Evan!! Long time.....Evan is the best guitar repair guy out there!!

You can really just use any kind of liquid super glue?

This was very well explained and it definitely seems to be what I have to do to My Fender Stratocastor to give me a lower, more comfortable string height action. Taking the saddles all the way down does not lower the action enough, and I get dead notes high up after the 14th fret when I do that. So, I have ordered a set of genuine Maple shims from Temu which I believe are cheaper than Stewmac.

Glad to see Seth Rogan doing what he loves

This is fascinating.

Watching in 2024

With ebony, it is not much of an issue, but CA glue will darken most woods, making it obvious where you've filled a void with sawdust. PVA will not.

Nice job brother 👍

That fret noise scared my cat 😂

What a beautiful tribute to an extraordinary man. Thank you.

But I love the springy bounty sound of my unseated frets!🤩🤣

A true Master of your trade, amazing talent that takes a life time to Master. Beautiful Work. Thank you for sharing.

Do i need pore fill for plywood? Im guessing yes fore the layers 😂

Good video and non-biased, very informative.

The string rubs only on the very top and slightly top behind. Naturally, that area remains clean. So the real question is how polishing improves that part of the surface and how long whatever improvement there is lasts. I'm guessing not long.

The guy destroyed the fretboard

for 500$ there should be no dents wtf

I just use the super fine crimson guitara fret polishing eraser. Takes a few minutes and doesn't abrade the fretboard like scotchbrite

I always used silver jewelry polish.

I use an epiphone prophecy lp, 12-54 gage strings on standard tuning, what's a good string height for this setup?